Most of the successful bidders forfive regional contractsto provide work capability assessments (WCAs) and assessments for personal independence payment (PIP)were awarded three months ago. Together, the contracts will be worth more than two billion pounds over the five years from 2024 to ...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is proposing to replace regular PIP payments with one-off grants, according to reports.
DWP also declined to say if the continuing levels of unreliability and the poor-quality reports suggested the three companies were not fit to win new contracts, or whether the audit results partly explained the high level of successful tribunal appeals against both WCA results and PIP ...
The award ofthe five-year contracts– spread across five areas of the UK – could see discredited outsourcing giants like Atos, Capita and Maximus carrying out both work capability assessments (WCAs) and personal independence payment (PIP) assessments*. The new system of carrying out assessments...